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Sympathy: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 289-295

The woozle effect is a method of arguing where you just place the responsibility of a piece of information on some source, then just repeatedly claim that the source said the thing. It doesn’t matter if the source said it or not because most people are not going to check and just assume that it’s true. This is Webster’s favorite conspiracy theory trick. The reader, by this point 2/3 of the way through the book, is just taking it at face value. She claims that the punishment for being an idler or objector to the syndicalist/socialist system is death, but we’ve seen no evidence for that. We have a quote, “ If a man will not work neither shall he eat!” and we are told that this is a rule that must be carried out by a Socialist state. We are given neither the source for this quote or a document which states that it is to be a rule. I’d even take one of her anti-Socialist writers saying it, but it’s just her attempt to imply that this is a thing. The attempt here is to frame Socialism a...
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Utopian: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 279-289

  “ Democracy is the land of plenty dreamt of by unscrupulous financiers ,” Webster quotes Sorel. This is the kind of comment where we must suspect that Webster either does not understand context is ignoring it because her audience won’t care. At this point in our journey, it should be apparent that Webster’s biggest crime is in committing the informal fallacy of cherry picking. She’s looking for out-of-context soundbites that she can then twist. We can see this from her footnotes where in successive citations she jumps from pg. 320 to 321 (ok, good), then to 186, 233, 112, 101, 236, and then 234.   Sorel, Georges Sorel, is being accused of harboring anti-democracy sentiments in his support of Socialism. Sorel thinks democracy is bad because of the corruption so we should assent to whatever it is that she wants us to think his solution is: probably some kind of dictatorship. We could however do a page hop citation for nearly any book to prove any point, this is why cherry pi...
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Apocalypse Soon: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 272-279

  The problem with conspiracy theories like Webster’s is that the looming danger is always just around the corner. It’s coming, and probably tomorrow; so be prepared but also be afraid. During 2020, conspiracy theorists liked to claim that the Summer of Protests was evidence of the conspiracy. It was Soros funded antifa-BLM designed to disrupt society and cause a total collapse of the government. The thing you have to ignore is that none of the conspiracy theorists predicted it, it was always a post-hoc prediction. Take some vague statement about unrest the theorist made several years ago and then pretend that it links up to that Summer. Webster makes the mistake of attempting an actual prediction. She describes “ the Great Day of Revolution.” She describes cutting the telephone/telegraph wires, smashing stores, looting, burning, and sabotaging the railways. This will prompt police and military to respond with the hope that some of them will join the revolution. Then the capital ...
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Strike! The Plot Against Civilization pp. 268-272

  The working people of the world are vastly outclassed in conflicts by the powers that be. In US history we can look at the Coal Wars, when the US military was used to protect the interests of coal companies by literally bombing the striking miners with planes. The US diverted military resources fighting World War I to attack its own citizens. Open conflict is inadvisable in these cases. The solution to fighting for the rights of the common person is the general strike. As Webster describes it, this is a tool of the anarchist—well, one of the tools. She claims that Mermeix defines three types of general strike: “ 1) the corporative general strike of the workers, 2) the Parliamentary general strike of the Socialists, and 3) the Revolutionary General strike of the Syndicalist leaders. ” She’s going to define each of them and I assume why they are all the tool of the Illuminati/Jews. For the corporative strike, she seems to be in support, writing that it was the only method that ...
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Communism? The Plot Against Civilization pp. 266-268

We begin this section with Webster attempting to explain why the population would attach themselves to syndicalism rather than socialism. She writes that the workers were frustrated with their leaders taking trips to Switzerland and sleeping in gilded beds while they died on the barricades in France and Russia. This is a fair question and one of the likely reasons that the Internationale collapsed. This is a problem of any organization, the leaders appear as though they are living in luxury while everyone else grovels. It’s a system that looks especially bad for Socialism as everyone is supposed to be equal. It’s a valid issue to raise as the difference between theory and practice becomes practice. Our problem is in someone like Webster raising this issue. Webster has favored aristocrats like the Tsars of Russia, the aristocrats of the France, and even Napolean III. There is no way she can consistently raise the fact that a Socialist leader once staying in a hotel as a problem for th...
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Syndicalism...Again: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 263-266

  We’ve done this before, back in the first French Revolution days where Webster did her thing mentioning something as crucially important, I do a bunch of reading on it, and then she drops it three sentences later. On the plus side I did not have to that much reading for this week, but her style is still annoying. To refresh the memory (I did have to refresh my own memory), syndicalism is another economic/political system. Socialism is equal distribution of authority and economy; the former was accomplished through some process of election or merit. Anarchy is a system where every person has a say in everything. Plato hated this form of government which he equated with Democracy. Aristotle believed Anarchy was a corrupt version of Democracy. People like Bakunin didn’t believe that any person should have more authority than anyone else, no matter what that meant for the rest of society. Syndicalism is a system wherein the various aspects of society are run by the experts in those...
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An Argument. The Plot Against Civilization pp. 259—262

Engaging with ideas is beyond the capabilities of conspiracy theorists, that’s why they are conspiracy theorists. They’ll give lip service to wanting engagement but in the end they just have their misdirection, ad hominem, and non-sequiturs. This weeks’ section is all three. Anyway Socialism/Anarchism is bad, so are Socialists/Anarchists. We have been reading a chapter that is supposed to be about the development of Socialist/Anarchist movements throughout the 19 th century but she really hasn’t delivered. What we have gotten are a list of petty squabbles, some gossip, and a list of bad things that her alleged enemies have done. She doesn’t address the arguments of these movements. It’s easier to raise the ire of people by discussing how they killed the Tsar of Russia. The course of Socialism should take us to America, and it does for two sentences when she mentions that American Anarchists led by Johann Most “ gave evidence of their presence by a dynamite explosion in the Haymark...
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